The ponytail method can only give you one type of haircut: a heavily layered one. As a professional hairstylist, I'd suggest only entertaining this method if you have extremely long hair or curly hair, because drastic layers are best suited for curly texture and lots of length.
"Cutting your hair when it's in a ponytail creates shag-like layers because you are over-directing all the hair and gathering it to one point," Arrunategui says. "So all the hair at the top of your head will be shorter, and all the hair around the perimeter will be longer." Who Doesn't Want More Hair Volume?
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Karhadi reports, “Hairstyles that pull the hair tight over prolonged periods of time can lead to hair loss due to traction on the hair.” Repeatedly pulling too hard on your strands causes trauma to the follicle resulting in what's officially called traction alopecia.
As celebrity and editorial hairstylist Neil Moodie explains: “A wolf haircut is a mix of the shag haircut and a mullet, but generally created on longer hair. It has shorter choppy layers on the top and longer choppy layers around the sides and back.”
By pulling your hair up into a ponytail high enough that it can be seen from the front, it opens up the face, tightens facial features, and emphasizes your eyes, eyebrows, and cheekbones. And as an added bonus, it also visually elongates your face and overall silhouette making you look a little taller.
One of the most “popular” methods is the “Unicorn” DIY haircut. The “reasoning” behind this kind of haircut is that by wetting your hair, placing it in a ponytail above your head, bringing it forward and cutting at the end, you will have “layers that have the same length”.
When you tie your hair tightly, the hairs on the hairline receive the most force and over time, the hair can pull away from the follicle causing a receding hairline. Sometimes this can look like a widening of your part.
By removing damaged hairs, haircuts promote healthy hair growth and stops the spread of split ends through the strands. This allows long-term hair health with less need for expensive products or conditioners. It is recommended to trim hair once every four months to maintain perfect hair health.
Heart shaped faces suit softer layers and more hair around the forehead. Ponytails with long wispy bangs are ideal for heart shaped faces, as they help to balance the forehead and bring attention to the cheek bones and jaw.
The jellyfish haircut sports disconnected layers that resemble a short bob with longer layers underneath. If the name is any giveaway, it truly resembles the round body and longer, billowy tentacles of a jellyfish.
Similar to a mullet, the style features more body and volume at the crown of the head (the head of the octopus) and then longer, thinner, shag-like layers from the mid-shaft to ends (the tentacles). Though the octopus haircut is inspired by both the mullet and shag, it is neither.
A butterfly haircut combines short layers with long layers to give your hair dimension, movement and body. The short, wispy layers hit around the chin to frame your face, highlight your features and even contour a round face shape.
The most common cutting techniques that can be used with virtually any type of kitchen knife is slicing.
For a more noticeable thinning appearance, chipping eliminates excess areas of hair to create dimension and body to the desired style. The process involves pointing the scissors at a 45-degree angle inward to cut angular pieces, from the ends of the segmented hair.
Sometimes, you need your hair completely out of your face. Whilst we know a high ponytail can cause damage, a high, loose bun is a much better option.